same here
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I donāt know about the $$ but DIHP will remain open for horses to stay if needed. I know several barns that would like to leave but have no where to go. Home barns wonāt let them in (worried about infecting horses at home).
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Ugh. Just a horrible situation for everyone. 
My heart breaks for what you went through. What a beautiful boy he was. Thank you for pushing through the pain to tell us about his passing. Maybe this will encourage others who are downplaying the seriousness of this virus to truly understand and behave more responsibly.
Praying that when you think of him, it is of all the good times you shared. 
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If a horse was on the show grounds and has no symptoms, the recommended protocol is now 2 weeks of isolation with twice daily temperature checks, up from 10 days. Seven was never enough.
When a barn has an active case, quarantine is not lifted until two negative tests a week apart on any positive horse.
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What a handsome bay boy Melvin was. 
It mustāve been an emotional challenge to type out the details of that horrific time. Such a sad story of loss. But hopefully it will motivate more people to be conscientious and responsible.
Although Iām in AZ, tomorrow Iām going to a big schooling show with my greenie and you can be certain Iām not going to let him hang out, nose-to-nose, with gobs of other horses at the backgate.
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Early on the recommendation from the CDFA was for horses on the premises to āhunker downā and stay until the whole outbreak was resolved. Itās the horses leaving that is creating the wider outbreak (at least 6 counties).
What is the logic of saying you can leave and go to your home barn but you canāt leave and go to a horse show?
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In the theoretical case of someone who had their own barn away from other horses where they could isolate, rather than leaving them in quarantine at the horse park with known infected horses, I could understand it. However, I doubt if too many of the affected horses come from small barns in peopleās backyard where they could go home and not be in contact with any other equines, and taking them home to a barn full of other horses isnāt really any better than taking them to a show where there are other horses.
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Well, itās a matter of degree. Bringing the horse back to the home barn puts at risk all the horses at that barn, and for a large commercial barn, thatās a lot. Bringing a horse to a horse show puts at risk a large number of horses that will return to a lot of different barns. A horse show is sort of a āhubā of transmission like Denver or Chicago are hubs for the airlines.
Also, horse shows are a locus that concerned horse owners can put pressure on to cancel or enforce precautions. You canāt really control private barns to limit incoming horses. The state can impose a mandatory quarantine after a positive case appears, but thatās different.
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Well, I think the assumption is that you go home and quarantine the horses in a separate barn or area for 7-14 days.
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NWC weeks 3 and 4 were just cancelled.
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Well, Iād replace āassumptionā with āhopeā. Hopes are often disappointed.
One of the horses that had to be euthanized was a home barn mate of a horse that had competed at LAEC.
How many barns have places to isolate and donāt send stable hands and grooms between exposed and unexposed horses?
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Iād be really pissed if a barn I boarded at allowed an exposed horse to come home prior to completing the quarantine, even if that situation is technically ānot as badā as that same horse going to a show with other horses from all over.
However, if the exposed horseās owner had their own private barn the horse could quarantine at and not risk further exposure from staying at the horse park, I wouldnāt blame them for wanting to take their horse home.
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A positive case was supposedly found at the show in NorCal. An email just went out canceling the next two weeks of shows there, but the email didnāt say anything about the asymptomatic positive that is rumored to have happened. My friend who is there told me that the positive came from a barn that was at Thermal, they followed the shorter quarantine recommendations, came to the show in NorCal and thatās when they found the positive.
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Wow, it seems drastic to cancel a big show in Northern California with no cases detected on siteābut I applaud them for taking action before a bad situation happens. Very proactive. I know some people were getting very nervousāthe trainer of the horse we were going to see took her horses home before the announcement was made.
I hear ya. I agree - very difficult situation. Donāt shoot the messengerā¤ļø
Oh, I didnāt hear that. With so much attention on the CA outbreak, I donāt think this will remain a secret if itās trueāIām sure there will be some kind of official confirmation. For now itās in the category of rumor.
If itās supposedly āasymptomatic,ā how would it have been detected?
I think that means no neuro symptoms but maybe a fever? Thatās how I read it anywayā¦.
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Exactly. Our boarding barn had a separate āmare motelā type structure that could in theory be used for isolation, but the horse(s) there got the same stable hands, same wheelbarrows, same manure rakes etc. True isolation is impossible at many stables.
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What and where is NWC ?
